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Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Liaoning, Hebei, and Heilongjiang Provinces Die from Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. Mr. Chen Jixiang was 46 years old and lived in Yongling Town of Xinbin
Township, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Mr. Chen's job was to fluff the cotton
stuffing in quilts. Before Mr. Chen started practicing Falun Gong, he had
various diseases. His abdomen hurt all the time and he had diarrhea 6-7 times a
day. There was blood and pus in his stool. Though he visited many famous
hospitals, he was never cured. Mr. Chen also had a very bad temper. The
neighbors knew that he often beat his wife. He weighed about 108 pounds, smoked,
drank and fought with his wife after drinking. Sometimes he would cry for no
reason and his daughter was often afraid. His family lived a hard life. Mr. Chen started practicing Falun Gong in July 1997. He then understood the
principles of how to be a good person. He began living by those principles and
became very healthy. He quit smoking and drinking and his family life became
peaceful. He no longer sold used fluffed old cotton for the price of new cotton. After the persecution against Falun Gong started, the police arrested Mr.
Chen five different times and sent him to a brainwashing center once. Each time
they tried to force him to renounce Falun Gong. In August 1999, Mr. Chen went to
the local government and then to Beijing to validate the Fa. After he returned
from Beijing, Director Zhang Rongqing of the Yongling Police Station sent him to
a brainwashing center. Zhang also ordered Mr. Chen to be brought to the police
station every day to clean the glass windows, remove weeds, wash quilts and
process bed covers. Mr. Chen did not receive any pay for his work. The police
station fined him 200 yuan before he was released. On September 11, 1999, Zhang Rongqing and others from the Yongling Police
Station again arrested Mr. Chen and placed him in a detention center. The
prisoners there beat him until his face swelled up so much that he couldn't eat.
The beating also injured his back. Under this severe torture, Mr. Chen
compromised and paid 4,000 yuan to be released. In August 2000, Guo Huawei and others from the Yongling Police Station
arrested Mr. Chen for the third time and again put him in a detention center.
Mr. Chen was awakened before dawn to cut wood and process ginseng. Mr. Chen
finally succumbed to the persecution and wrote a guarantee statement
never to practice Falun Gong again and paid a 3,000 yuan fine to be released. In December 2000, Officer Wang Yongping and others from the Xinbin County
Police Department broke into Mr. Chen's home to confiscate his property. The
police confiscated an answering machine, an incense burner and 7000 yuan in
cash. Once again, they took Mr. Chen to a detention center. This time Mr. Chen's
family spent 3000 yuan on presents to bribe the police for his release. Twenty days after Mr. Chen returned home and one day before the Chinese New
Year, Guo Huawei and policemen from the Yongling Police Station came to arrest
him again. He was imprisoned for more then 10 days. On February 1, 2001, the
police put Mr. Chen in the Fushun City Brainwash Center. They forced Mr. Chen to
"transform" again by torturing him. One month later, they extorted
more than 10,000 yuan from him to gain his release. In the fall of 2003, Officers Guo Huawei and Cao Sixin from the Yongling
Police Station arrested Mr. Chen. They took him to Fushun City's Luotai mountain
village to brainwash him. After Mr. Chen was released from the Luotai mountain village brainwashing
center, his eyes started to itch severely. A month later, the severe itching
moved to his neck. Later, he felt uncomfortable in his chest, like his esophagus
was being blocked. The hospital diagnosed it as uremia. Chen died on August 20,
2005. Mr. Chen's daughter is in college now and his son is in high school. The
whole family depended on him to bring in money. Phone numbers: Song Junlin, Secretary of the Xinbin County Political and Judiciary
Committee, 86-413-5080010, 86-413-5086001 (Home) Zhang Rongqing, 86-413-5080595 2. Mr. Wang Tiliang, 66 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from the
Fengrun District in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Mr. Wang started to practice
Falun Gong in 1996 and benefited from the practice. After the persecution
started on July 20, 1999, Mr. Wang insisted on continuing the practice. The
police station and his work place constantly harassed him. Someone reported him
to the police when he was delivering truth clarification materials
about Falun Gong. At about 12:10 p.m. on August 25, 2001, more than ten people
from the district's police department and police station broke into his home and
confiscated his property. The police tried to take the 67,000 yuan cash Mr. Wang
had saved for his son's wedding and housing. Mr. Wang tried to stop them, but
they arrested him and locked him in a detention center. He did not get any food
for twenty days out of four months. Mr. Wang was as thin as a stick when his
work place bailed him out. The police department still withheld 5,000 yuan from
him. Mr. Wang was extremely traumatized and had difficulty eating. He died on
August 25, 2005. 3. Ms. Zhang Guizhi, 72 years old, lived in the Fengrun District of Tangshan
City in Hebei Province. Ms. Zhang started practicing Falun Gong in 1996 and was
healthy from then on. After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, officials
from the neighborhood administration office and the residential committee went
to her home many times to confiscate her books, harass her and force her to
write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang was easily
intimidated to begin with and got even more scared from the constant
persecution. She died on July 21, 2005, from fear caused by the persecution. 4. Ms. Liu Qianqian, 33 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from
Shangzhi Town of Shangzhi City in Heilongjiang Province. In 2002, before the
Dragon Boat Festival, Ms. Liu went to Hedong Township, Shangzhi City to sell
vegetables and clarify the truth. Someone reported her. Later, officers from
Shangzhi City's 610 Office arrested her. They secretly sentenced her
to three years in prison and locked her up in the Heilongjiang Province Women's
Prison. While in the Women's Prison, she was forced to work beyond her physical
ability every day and was subjected to brainwashing. Ms. Liu weighed less than 50 lbs. when she was released and allowed go home.
She weighed more than 90 lbs when she was arrested. Her skin was tightly wrapped
against her skull and her veins showed. Her esophagus and stomach were infected.
Her family paid over 5,000 yuan for treatment at a hospital. However, on August
6, 2005, just five days later, she died at the Jinzhou Hospital. The details are
still under investigation.
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